We love to camp. We’ve been camping every Memorial Day weekend with the same group of friends since long before we were married. Conveniently, some of our very good friends have children similar in age to ours, which has made continuing to have family outings together easy. Many of these outings have inspired camping posts from […]
Tips for traveling to Disney World with Young Children
Posted on April 22, 2013 Written by 1 Comment
Disney World tips on our green living blog? “That’s not green!” you might say. Well, sure, it would be greener to go camping (which we do every year) or go on an eco-vacation to an educational eco-resort like some of our friends. However, sometimes you just want a traditional vacation with nice hotels, exciting […]
Signs of the Travel Industry’s Greening
Posted on April 16, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment
Here are a few of the positive signs we noticed of how Walt Disney World, and a lot of the travel industry, is working to be more environmentally friendly: Happy Green Traveling! Jon & Alicia
Going Green With 70 of Our Closest Friends
Posted on January 2, 2013 Written by 2 Comments
Every year we rent a mansion with 70 of our closest friends. You laugh, but take about 20 couples, add children, and you quickly get to a crazy number of people. We just got back from another wonderful experience of living communally for a week. Putting on such an event takes some coordination and forethought, […]
Being Green in Politics & on Vacation
Posted on August 15, 2012 Written by 1 Comment
I want to apologize to our readers for not having more posts last week and this week on green living. Last week we were at a family wedding, all of our children were in the wedding, aren’t they cute? Ring Bearer and Flower Girl Jr Groomsman and Flower Girl Alicia has been volunteering on the […]
Why Do People Leave Trash On the Beach?
Posted on August 7, 2012 Written by 4 Comments
Every year my parents help us rent a beach house in a nice neighborhood on the Jersey Shore. Last year I posted a picture collage of trash that people had left on the beach. This year the trash at the end of the day seemed worse than ever before. I understand the occasional straw […]
How Green is a Disney Vacation?
Posted on July 5, 2012 Written by 5 Comments
As someone trying to live a green life, you probably don’t want to give up your values completely when you go on vacation.”Eco-travel” is a growing niche market. For example, the Sierra Club has eco-travel options and our friends went to an eco-tourist location in Nicaragua where they used composting toilets and fans instead of […]
Reusable Dishes or Disposable?
Posted on May 29, 2012 Written by 4 Comments
Going camping? Should you take paper plates and cups and plastic silverware, or should buy special camping dishes and silverware? Which is more green? What is the right thing to do? Like most things that are “green” the answer is, it depends. Much of this discussion is about camping, however, many of these reasons hold […]
Is Your Gear Ready? Prepping for Camping
Posted on May 20, 2012 Written by 3 Comments
We love to go camping! If you’re a regular reader of our blog you’ve probably picked up on this already, given the number of posts we’ve done about camping. How often we camp depends on a number of things, but we have an annual camping trip with friends that we look forward to all year, […]
The Greening of Rest Stations!
Posted on April 8, 2012 Written by 2 Comments
We live about 200 miles from our nearest family, so a typical holiday for us involves driving that far each way. Before children, we would occasionally drive straight through, but really, I can’t go more than about 2 hours without stopping at a rest station. Now that we have three, we have gotten to know […]
